Posted September 21, 2022 at 1:59 pm | No comments
A musical romp of a show of stunningly masterful blues guitar, storytelling and a fine array of vocals by an aficionado of guitar, Toby Walker, at the 37-year old Reston-Herndon Folk Club in Northern Virginia, kept the audience captivated, song after song, story after story. Offering up traditional old blues tunes and more contemporary blues of his own, Walker, plucked, bent and made his Huss & Dalton guitar shimmer with a full bag of tricks, honed over decades of playing the usual and unusual haunts in the States and overseas.
Posted in: Acoustic News, Blues, Blues News, Country News, Fingerstyle, Folk, Folk News, Guitar News, Jazz News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted August 25, 2022 at 10:17 pm | No comments
Functioning around introspection, destination and self-validation, Dylan Fraser’s early catalogues finds the Scottish-born artist unpacking his journey from his small town of Bathgate to his newfound reality as an artist with the world at his feet, trying to make sense of the people and situations he’s faced along the way.
Posted in: Folk News, Guitar News, Product News, Rock News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted August 22, 2022 at 8:12 pm | No comments
AXS TV turns back the clock to one of music’s most important decades this Labor Day Weekend, with the special, Sounds Like The ’90s, three-day event—airing Saturday, September 3 through Monday, September 5. The block closes out on Labor Day with hit-heavy concerts from R&B standouts Seal and Macy Gray, folk heroes Dave Matthews Band and Sheryl Crow, alt-rock mainstays Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden; as well as Rock Legends profiles of Lenny Kravitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam.
Posted in: Guitar News, Industry News, Uncategorized
Posted August 16, 2022 at 7:10 pm | No comments
Acclaimed singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ethan Daniel Davidson announces a September 30th release date for his new album, Stranger, on Cleveland-based Blue Arrow Records. Stranger is Davidson’s 12th album
Posted in: Acoustic News, Folk News, Guitar News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted August 14, 2022 at 4:28 pm | No comments
Today, Steve Earle has earned his own icon status, not only by writing his own songs and performing to thousands, but by deep digging into the entangled roots of more contemporary music, studying the wherefore and why of musical traditions of songs and styles beyond American shores. Like the generation before him, his own journey is part of both a land mass of musical traditions, and a migration of his own songs for future generations.
Posted in: '80s Rock, Blues Interviews, Country, Country Interviews, Guitar Hero Interviews, Interviews, Legends Interviews, Rock Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews, Uncategorized
Posted August 3, 2022 at 8:50 am | 3 comments
Guitar International followed up our earlier interview with vintage guitar expert, George Gruhn, in Nashville shortly after the economy folded and within a few weeks of the Nashville flood. Luckily George’s shop was saved from the disaster, but other businesses and homes in Tennessee took catastrophic hits.
Posted in: Guitar Dealers, Interviews
Posted July 26, 2022 at 9:35 am | No comments
Today Fender announces the release of the George Harrison “Rocky” Stratocaster, the newest addition to the Fender Artist Signature line! The singer-songwriter and lead guitarist for the Beatles played a variety of iconic guitars throughout his career, but the most visually distinctive was his 1961 Sonic Blue Stratocaster, hand-painted in psychedelic Day-Glo colors and affectionately named “Rocky.”
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Posted July 25, 2022 at 9:21 pm | No comments
Since Brad Fee began forming Mojo Hand FX in Texas over a decade ago, Mojo Hand FX has gone on to create a number of well-loved, classic pedals and a small but devoted following. After changing hands in 2015, the new owner Jon Cusack has chosen to maintain and now expand the Mojo Hand reputation for well-made boutique pedals in the Mojo Hand tradition
Posted in: Guitar News, Guitars and Gear, Product News, Uncategorized
Posted July 21, 2022 at 9:37 am | No comments
Last night at Alexandria, Virginia’s legendary Birchmere Music Hall, Steve Earle and The Dukes rolled out an evening of country roots tangled with an eclectic mix of songs welded together by Earle’s vocals immersed in grit, beautifully crafted songwriting, and his amazing band whose melodic twists and turns, and hot licks “could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch”, in the purloined words of Willie Nelson.
Posted in: Blues News, Country News, Folk News, Guitar News, Rock News, Singer Songwriter News, Uncategorized
Posted July 19, 2022 at 11:37 am | No comments
You’ve got to hand it to Ben Brookes Belcher, the man works hard rolling out some of the coolest country songs we’ve heard in a long time. Belcher nails down some fancy guitar licks while singing a mix of gritty hard tack down home spins to some of the sweetest heart wrenching ballads.
Posted in: Country, Country Interviews, Fingerstyle, Fingerstyle Interviews, Folk, Interviews, Singer Songwriter Interviews
